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    A Series of Unfortunate Events #7: The Vile Village

    By Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist and Michael Kupperman

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    NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

    Dear Reader,

    You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of their stay in the village of V.F.D. has been faithfully and dreadfully recorded in these pages.

    I can think of no single reason why anyone would want to open a book containing such unpleasant matters as migrating crows, an angry mob, a newspaper headline, the arrest of innocent people, the Deluxe Cell, and some very strange hats. It is my solemn and sacred occupation to research each detail of the Baudelaire children's lives and write them all down, but you may prefer to do some other solemn and sacred thing, such as reading another book instead.

    With all due respect,

    Lemony Snicket

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061757198
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    A Series of Unfortunate Events #7: The Vile Village
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    Lemony Snicket

    Lemony Snicket had an unusual education, which may or may not explain his ability to evade capture. He is the author of the 13 volumes in A Series of Unfortunate Events, several picture books including The Dark, and the books collectively titled All The Wrong Questions.

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    • 5/5
      The Baudelaire children continue on their quest to find out more about their deceased parents -- and to escape the clutches of Count Olaf and his troupe of miscreants. I read this title many years ago, but I do recall absolutely loving this series and being impatient to get my hands on the next book in the series!
    • 4/5
      The series finally feels like it's got more mystery to it than in the earlier books. But I agree with user benuathanasia - sometimes you just want to smack them!
    • 4/5
      This was one of the best novels in the Series of Unfortunate Events so far. Previous mysteries are solved, and new juicy details are introduced to keep the reader looking forward to the next installment. I thought Violet's invention in this book was particularly clever and loved the wordplay, as always.
    • 5/5
      Another enjoyable book in the Series of Unfortunate Events series! I enjoyed the dark imagery of a city covered in crows with citizens who are all too eager to burn at the stake anyone who dares break one of their numerous rules. And of course, things never go well for our poor Boudelaire orphans, but they keep trudging along, making the most of their talents, working together to get through every dire situation. IMO, Lemony Snicket is an ingenious storyteller!
    • 2/5
      My feelings towards this instalment of the series are unfortunately a bit mixed. In terms of plot, its far from being the best entry in the series. It's slow moving and its plot is utterly bizarre. Which says a lot, given some of the trials that the Baudelaire siblings have faced thus far. I also felt that the end of this book was a bit of an anti-climax, with no clever plot to unmask Olaf or frantic escape.I'm also starting to feel as though this series teases the reader a bit too much. As with the previous instalment, there is no more of Olaf's plan revealed and it's still not even explained what V.F.D actually stands for. In fact, the novel goes out of its way to hand answers to the orphans, only to snatch them away again. As we are seven books into the series now, I would have hoped that Snicket would have given us some morsel of plot development by now.That said, I do appreciate the way that this book does mark a change in the dynamic of the series. Instead of moving to stay with new relatives and being forced to uncover Olaf's disguises, the Baudelaires instead find themselves framed for murder and on the run from the law. I suppose only time will tell if this switch does anything to spice up the series, but I'm at least curious to see how it will pan out in the next novel.
    • 5/5
      I really like this volume of the series because it's rather whimsical. A town full of crows, thousands of ridiculous rules, and a hot air balloon house. Of course, all of the Snicket books are on the whimsical side, but this one just takes the cake (a phrase which here means it has crows, rules, and hot air balloon houses rather than meaning there is cake in it).

      I also like this volume because it has what so many other books in the same genre lack: CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. I mean, the Baudelaires AGE. Sunny MATURES. They actually have BIRTHDAYS. I love it.Also, of course, we get further into the mystery of V.F.D. We get a hint as to what some of the initials stand for, and even briefly meet someone who knows quite a lot about it.On the note of characters, I love Hector. I totally empathize with his skittishness, and I am unspeakably proud of him for overcoming his fear (even if it's a little late).
    • 2/5
      The 7th in the Series of Unfortunate Events. I've stopped being bothered by the complete lack of realism in the books and therefore enjoyed this one a bit more (although there were quite a few eyerolls on my part).
    • 4/5
      This is a trechorous tale written by Lemony Snicket about threee children who's parents died in a fire. These children go on a series of unfortunate envent. Overall this is a great book and I encourag everybody from 7 and onwards. Rayna
    • 4/5
      This is one my favourites of the series, I LOVED these books when I was a kid. I feel like they really taught me something, not least a lot of vocabulary.

      This book changed the series completely, finally the kids are on their own.
    • 3/5
      "It takes a village to raise a child..." But, knowing the Baudelaires' luck; it takes a village to neglect a trio of poor orphans and to force them to do all the chores.
    • 4/5
      We've reached the middle, this is the 7th book in the Series of Unfortunate events, chronicling the misadventures of the Baudelaire children. This time Mr. Poe sends the children to be raised by a village, though it's more like take care of the village. Another great book for kids to help them expand their vocabulary ( here meaning to learn new and different words). The story continues and new situations arise and the Baudelaire's do what needs doing.
    • 4/5
      This book is one of the more scarier books in the series of unfortunate events. I would recommend it to a child who does not get scared easily.
    • 5/5
      Dark and mysterious this book leads you into a new era in the Baudelaire's lives.
    • 4/5
      i liked this book because of all the action it pulls you in to the childrens mishapes and adventures in this book the go to a village that takes care of them and the village has a lot of rules and stuff and it has a lot of words in it and and a lot of pages it was a good book i liked it it was fun to red,(not) nothing fun to read i read this book only cuz i had to read somthing
    • 4/5
      In this book the Quagmires and the Baudelaires meet and are again separated. This probably has the bleakest, if not the most cinematic, ending of any book in the series so far.
    • 4/5
      Oh, the voice in this story! Snarky. Clever. Delicious. Perfect.
    • 5/5
      It makes me so mad at how the Baudelaire's are wonderful children but are sent to an ungrateful town with a creepy tone to it. These people are ridiculous but at the same time I can't stop reading because theres so many things I don't know.
    • 4/5
      Sometimes I just want to smack the orphans for being so dense. Still amusing, however.
    • 5/5
      this book is great the Baudlures free their friend in a village of comfment they also get the name muder
    • 3/5
      Having completed the seventh book in the Series of Unfortunate Events, I must say this one, The Vile Village, was the most difficult to get through. I imagine when I reach the end of the series, this is the one I'll look back on and ask, “what happened in that book?” I remember crows and... that's about it.There were a few moments worth a snicker. The overarching mystery moved forward a little. Very little. Overall, this book was fairly ho-hum. I've seen many television series go through the same thing—a moment where the creative team loses focus, hopes to stretch the plot while they decide what to do next (Anyone remember Lost's “Stranger in a Strange Land”?) I hope that is the case here. I hope this isn't the new direction for A Series of Unfortunate Events, but merely a breather. The Vile Village was equal with The Bad Beginning in scope and overall story, but I expect more from the seventh book in a series, so I declare this one the worst so far.A Series of Unfortunate Events:The Bad Beginning – 3.1The Reptile Room – 3.2The Wide Window – 3.6The Miserable Mill - 3.3 The Austere Academy - 3.4The Ersatz Elevator - 3.3The Vile Village - 3.1
    • 3/5
      I am getting increasingly tired of Snicket defining words and phrases as they have to do with his story instead of the true dictionary definition of the word. Besides that, the story was well executed.My favorite thing is that Snicket has decided to age his child characters. Often in series of books intended for children, they remain the same age for the duration of the series, (i.e. as far as I know the Babysitters Club is still 13 and in the 8th grade, and have been since I was 9--and I'm 27). It's nice when the children grow, as well as learn, (i.e. the Harry Potter characters). I'm glad Snicket has allowed the Beaudelaires to do this. It gives me hope that Violet will turn 18 prior to being captured successfully by Olaf.
    • 3/5
      Trying to figure out the secret of VFD, which their friends the Quagmire triplets hinted at in the last book, the Baudelaire orphans go to live in a village titled "VFD" in a pamphlet. But alas, the villagers have no desire to parent the orphans, and isntead expect them to spend all their days cleaning up after the town's flock of crows (a flock so large that it completely blankets the town, making it look like a shivering mirage from afar). And of course, Count Olaf appears to make their lives even more miserable.
    • 5/5
      This didn't catch my mind but I still got pulled in. I don't know why this didn't catch my mind as much. It just didn't.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed reading this book because even though, by now, we know how things will unfold, the element of mystery and surprise is still prominent throughout the whole story. Moreover, Esmé could be the definition of a despicable woman, her and Count Olaf are a match made in hell!
    • 4/5
      Another witty installment where the plot thickens. Not only are we worried about whether the Baudelaires will escape Count Olaf or whether the Quagmires will be saved, we see that the narrator and other characters are interlinked with the plot.
    • 4/5
      Things are beginning to come together in the Seventh book of the "Series of Unfortunate Events". The Baudelaires are now in a town dedicated to and covered with crows. Through the crows, the children are delivered coded messages from the Quagmire triplets. The messages come in rhymes and the children spend much of their time (when not dealing with all the rules imposed on them by the townspeople) trying to decipher the 'poem'. And here is where the book tickled the literature teacher in me. The children go about systematically thinking about the meaning of each line of the poem, about each word and each word's various meanings and interpretations. What a lovely way to introduce children to literary analysis. Not that the 'poem' is very deep, but it is a fine example of multi-layered readings that a child can easily grasp. When they finally figure out the poem, they are able to rescue the Quagmire triplets, but as can be expected, the Baudelaire children do not escape with them. We learn, however, that Lemony Snicket is intimately related to what has been happening to the Baudelaire children, when his brother (?) Jacques Snicket makes a short and gruesome appearance in the book. Curiouser and curiouser.
    • 2/5
      I wish I hadn't started reading this series but now I have to find out how it ends.
    • 4/5
      A big let down from "The Ersatz Elevator" All the stories have been "dark," but the humor seems to be missing from this one. The continuing mystery of V.F.D. and the continued hinting of Lemony Snicket's personal connections to the Baudeliares and Count Olaf are keeping the story interesting.
    • 5/5
      Violet, Klaus, and Sunny arrive in a town covered in crows. They want to find the two Quagmire triplets, but will they?
    • 5/5
      This book is fiction. It is a fantastic book.There are 3 children Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Bauldlaire. There parents had died in a fire and they had been placed to live with many gaurdians all ending in disaster. The Bauldlaire orphans are sent to their 7th home. It is the village of v.f.d. Their new gaurdian is a guy named Hector. In this village there are many many many rules. If uy break one as simple as putting too much nuts on ice cream you will be burned at the stake. Later, the village said they had caaptured Count Olaf, the Bauldlaire's old gaurdian who wants to steel Violet's fortune. It really isn't him. In the night in the jail cell he is murdered. A new detective comes. He is Count Olaf the Bauldlaireshad said. It was true. He was discised as a detective so no one regonized him. Then, trouble has begun and it leeads to so much more in the story. This book is 7 points and i recomend it.By Abby Silver